Who Was Alive

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath

Born 15 April 1452 · died 2 May 1519, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg
  2. Mehmed II
  3. Sandro Botticelli
  4. Christopher Columbus
  5. Leonardo da Vinci
  6. Vasco da Gama
  7. Erasmus
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli
  9. Albrecht Dürer
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus
  11. Michelangelo
  12. Thomas More
  13. Ferdinand Magellan
  14. Raphael
  15. Martin Luther
  16. Hernán Cortés
  17. Mimar Sinan
  18. Henry VIII of England
  19. Jacques Cartier
  20. François Rabelais
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent
  22. Charles V
  23. Nostradamus
  24. John Calvin
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Leonardo da Vinci was born, Christopher Columbus was about a year old, Mehmed II was 20, Isabella I of Castile was under a year old, François Villon was 20 or 21 and Julius II was 8.

When Leonardo da Vinci died, Michelangelo was 44, Martin Luther was 35, Niccolò Machiavelli was 50, Nicolaus Copernicus was 46 and Raphael was 36.

Born during Leonardo da Vinci’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer and Vasco da Gama.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I of England was born 14 years after Leonardo da Vinci died, Michel de Montaigne was born 14 years after Leonardo da Vinci died, Ivan the Terrible was born 11 years after Leonardo da Vinci died and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born 6 years after Leonardo da Vinci died.

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All 49 contemporaries we track

  1. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  2. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  3. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  6. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  7. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  8. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  9. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  10. Johannes Gutenberg 1393–1406 – 1468
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  20. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  27. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  28. Babur 1483 – 1530
  29. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  30. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  31. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  32. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  33. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  34. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  35. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  36. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  37. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  38. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  39. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  40. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  41. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  42. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  43. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  44. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  45. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  46. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  47. Pius II 1405 – 1464
  48. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  49. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541